Watch how from local WA Manager cutely accuses catastrophic failure on my diagnosis, a 70-odd-year-old amputee, who can no longer work on his vehicles, and engages Lube Mobile, who spends a lot on Google and very little on training on those who either do not have the tools or knowledge of how it is done here in Australia. While I am discussing with the regional manager who is quoting me $7-8,000 to rectify a blown head gasket, and likely head issue, hangs up on me because he is off to an important meeting. This issue occurred after the vehicle, was handed back to me as fixed, after parting with $1,400. Watch this space I do not intend to be pushed off to ACC.
Update: After speaking to specialists, reputable and experienced service providers have confirmed Lube Mobile is again having a lend of me, and l have one of these companies coming out to do a pressure test to access which hose allegedly replaced and paid for was new and was fitted correctly. I have already dispelled Lube Mobile alleging it will take 3 - 4 weeks to now fix.
More to come as we discover exactly what they have done.
Further, revealing, and exposing, what now is the behaviour I suspected was occurring, to the extent Lube Mobile will read here how exposed they are, and Monday they will be receiving an official demand for details of their Legal Representatives. You do not need to be fobbed off to ACC by these guys when you hear what has happened here.
You can work this out for yourself. As you have heard, I was handed the vehicle back fixed, and it overheated on my test drive just hours after it was deemed sorted, my $1,420.00 was in their bank account so;
- Wednesday - On my first drive got one 1-klm from home temperature off the chart,
- Thursday – The Mechanic came back and said another hose had blown and would cost me $ 250 more plus hose, of course, my reaction was not too polite, informing him, I was paying no more until it was fixed,
- 2 hours later WA manager rings and says I am a mechanic and I know how things work you have a likely seized head and blown head gasket,
- then hour after that mechanic rang me to change his diagnosis and said it had blown the head gasket, now we see transparently, an attempt to get all players on the same page,
- State manager in his authoritative Irish accent “I have been working on the things all my life” I know these things and between the niceties, he says if we litigate this, he will provide all the voice recordings of our discussions,
- My response I was not too intimidated by any lightweight pretender, I would subpoena, all recordings of of our voice communication,
- This WA Manager persisted in trying to speak over and down to me to make a kind offer in his words prepared to credit labour to now and it needs to go to their Embleton Workshop, and he suggests it could be between $7-8,000 which is a discount on what they would normally charge for this type of repair,
- My response is not repeatable,
- I next got a call from the Regional manager very busy man off to a meeting, gets in he had been following this Job and demanding my attention to what was being offered, well now this update he will see here first-hand and find something to discuss with their legal representatives,
I had a real mechanic here for an hour or so today, confirming there has not been any pressure test done on this vehicle. We ran the vehicle for over ¾ of an hour, and there was no sign in the cooling system of a head gasket leak, and no overheating, as you will see there was no appropriate testing that could have taken place, on this update see photos of leaking hoses which precluded any such pressure test from taking place. NB: there are no normal signs of a blown head gasket or any head issues! Something any well-trained Australian Trained Motor Mechanic would know.! Now I will throw in a cheap one, I would suggest a little less Google spend, and a bit more spent on securing quality Management and Training [ manager & skilled labour.
Early this morning via email 12/02/224 4.35 am Perth Time - my review has acknowledged, and from wherever the call centre is located their well-resourced digital platform kicks into action.